The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) of Canada charged a federal government employee Thursday for allegedly hacking into the Quebec government's main website last spring.

Janvier Doyon-Tremblay, 28, an information technology analyst with the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council, a Canadian government agency, faces two Criminal Code counts of unauthorized use of computers and one count of mischief in relation to data.

He is to appear in court here on November 26.

In a news release, the RCMP said that Doyon-Tremblay "is believed to have performed a series of attacks" on the Quebec government's main website on April 27, 2012, and left it disabled for two days.

At the time of the alleged attack, he worked under contract as a business applications support officer at the Canadian Parliament and as a LAN administrator for the RCMP.

Canada's national police force said that while working at the House of Commons, Doyon-Tremblay hacked into the Quebec government's network, "gained administrative privileges" and proceeded to upload "a malicious program which would have targeted the Government of Quebec's main website" and rendered it inaccessible to the public.

The RCMP's Integrated Technological Crime Unit arrested the man last Friday.

His alleged cyber-attacks occurred when Quebec university students took to the streets protesting proposed tuition hikes, and hackers, operating under the "Anonymous" group banner, disrupted the Quebec education and public safety department websites.

On Wednesday, Canadian Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced a five-year, C$155 million ($157 million) strategy to protect the country against electronic threats, hacking and "cyber-espionage" .